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Dan In Real Life on DVD (2007)

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Average rating: (63%)
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Starring: Steve Carell | Juliette Binoche | Dane Cook | Alison Pill | Brittany Robertson | Marlene Lawston | Dianne Wiest | John Mahoney
Director: Peter Hedges
Studio: ICON HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 94 mins
Certificate: PG
User collections: My Favourite Films
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Languages: English
Hearing-impaired: English
Released: 09/06/2008
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Brief synopsis of Dan In Real Life

Advice columnist Dan Burns (Carell) has his hands full with three daughters that he's not willing to let grow up. The girls still grieve for their mother who died four years ago, and Dan hasn't made any attempts to date. So he's pleasantly surprised when he meets Marie (Juliette Binoche) at a bookstore when he goes to his parents' Rhode Island home for the annual family reunion. But his joy is short-lived when he discovers that she is dating his brother (Dane Cook), forcing Dan to hide his feelings and chemistry with Marie.

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Rated - 3 starsA real feel good movie!

A customer from SW London , 15/01/2008

I quite enjoyed this film, despite finding Carell very irritating.( He seems to only ever know how to act as one persona) It 's your typical feel good movie, a bit OTT in places but good to watch once. In a nutshell, it's the difficulties a widowed dad of three girls faces when his younger brother brings home a much older woman who happens to be Dan's (widowed dad's/Carell's) ideal woman.

Will or won't they end up together? You'll have to watch the film to find out, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out!

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Rated - 3 starsQuite entertaining

PaulaWestwood from Ashton-Under-Lyne [Highly rated reviewer] , 28/01/2008

Not typical Steve Carrell for me, he plays a charachter who is a little mour dour and unfunny than his usual portrayals. Thats not to say this has no humour at all, it is funny in places and funny-sad in others, but in general this is a much heavier movie than I expected. I expected something a but fun and fluffy, but this tackles the break up/relationship scenario a tad more seriously. Juliette Binoche is perfect (as always) though and adds an extra dimension that this film would have lacked without herthere. As really does the underrated (to me) Dane Cook. All in all not as much a giggle as I expected, but definately worth a watch.

  6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
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Rated - 2 starsDan In Real Life

SelenaKyle from St. Leonards-On-Sea [Highly rated reviewer] , 12/07/2008

I love Steve Carrell but this was a real let down.

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Rated - 0 starsVile and sisnister movie

Lunar from Derby [Highly rated reviewer] , 16/06/2008

A guy tries to steal his brother's girlfriend, whilst all his family is having a get together. Hmm, lovely! Tries to be cute about it, whilst ticking off all the boxes of what a 'cute' film should do, but there's naer a good performance to be seen and the whole thing just made me feel genuinely uncomfortable.

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Rated - 1 starsDAN IS NOT VERY FUNNY

LITTLEREDRILEY from Manchester , 09/08/2008

On the box it says laugh out loud! i didnt laugh out loud once, it was awful, the idea behind the film was clearly funnier than the actual film - which maybe twice throughout the whole film was slightly humourous and made me grin, but the rest was slow, boring and predictable! Do not watch this film expecting to laugh - you wont! his worst film to date!

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Rated - 2 starsnot funny

nicki1712 from Beverley , 17/08/2008

very disappointing and unfunny

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